Does anyone understand my feelings? I have 6 month appointments for checkups with my urologist and family doctor. In preparation, I stop shaving for a month before to prevent questions. So, I take a vacation day tomorrow. I have 2 appointments by noon, then an afternoon of shaving, hair removing and becoming Lena. Lena will be here again for the next 5 months. I missed her this month.
Can anyone relate, or an I am old freak?
I just don't worry about it. I have gone to the doctors and dentists in women's clothes with light makeup. Once I had to drop my panties to get checked for a hernia. The doctor didn't skip a beat. I'm also completely shaven. When I got a cardiogram, the tech was happy that my chest was shaved.
I think medical people have seen it all.
A doctor really doesn't care whether you shave your body hair or not. There are different reasons to shave one's body hair. And a docter is far to busy with his job to have tine to care about it.
Just think about it. If a docter would care about everyone who doesn't fit binary gender appearance then he would most likely become crazy.
Me for example. The first time I shaved my legs was like 16 years ago and I discovered crossdressing almost 3 years ago.
do not label me for i am unique
Doctors really don't care, My last dermatologist check was a full body check.
I keep shaved more parts then most.
Just professional doc, did the job and no discussion.
my sister's reply when I told her how I prefer to dress
"Everyone has there thing, all that matters is that you are happy, love what you do and who you do it with"
Doctors (and nurses) may not care, but they notice. They will tell their spouses and friends and probably joke about it. If you don't know your doctors and nurses personally, it doesn't really matter. If you do, it might.
BTW: Your doctor might ask. Have an answer even if it is "Because I like to."
Yes and the answer to the Doc is it's more sanitary, I asked my urologist why was that mass of hair there and he said he honestly didn't know. Why carry around the extra weight, shave it.
I used to do tje exact same thing.Now i keep smooth ,tomes have changed they dont care. If someone ever asked i would tell them nylons feel souch better on smooth legs.I also shave every thing from the waist down.
Believe me when I tell you that the doctors don't care and won't say anything to you. They have seen more then you will ever know. I am in my late 60's and as smooth as the day I was born and have never been asked as to why I am so smooth.
Molly
"To thine own self be true"
Watch a movie some time. Look at the male lead. He's shaved. It's 2015, men shave any part they want to shave. There's commercials on mainstream TV for guy razors for chest, back, and leg hair.
Sorry if I'm rude but why the heck would they tell anyone? Docter"today I had a patient who shaved his arms, junk and body. Hahahaha" friend"do you still think that's funny after 100 times, grow up"Originally Posted by Krisi
do not label me for i am unique
Quite. Went into the local clinic when I had to leave work feeling like s@#*. Wearing a skirt with male top, shaved legs. Got an EKG as well as blood tests, the tech doing the EKG just seemed to find it convenient that it wasn't necessary to roll up the pants legs, (or drop them) to get the contacts on the upper thigh. Most won't blink, they shouldn't actually say anything at all, certainly nothing derogatory, considered unprofessional behaviour, and anyway, they're pretty much certain to have seen something weirder.
"Normal is what you get when you average out the weirdness that everybody has." Quote from my SO
Normal is a setting on a washing machine, or another word for average.
The fact that I wear a skirt as a male should not be taken as a comment on what you do, or do not wear, or how you wear it.
I guess I'm just too much of a fuddy duddy. I'm just not quite ready to go to my urologist who already says "drop you pants and underwear then learn over the table. I'll give you a tissue when I'm done.". Awkward enough with a hairy ass. I'm not ready to stick a bare glistening ass out for his probing. Just not ready for that discussion yet.
I almost forgot. Before the prostate check, he usually checks the testicles and proclaims... Those are about the right size.(it's for my testosterone replacement.)
Last edited by Lena; 11-10-2015 at 04:21 PM.
We don't fully understand your circumstance so you may be right to go through your pre-doctor routine but I agree that they really don't care. I have worn plain panties to several doctors appointments and there has been no response. ow on the other hand I can't do the five months no hair thing due to my circumstances. To each her own.
I keep myself shaved all the time, and I always wear panties to the doctor. He's much more concerned about the donuts I had for breakfast than he is about my underwear. (I'm diabetic.)
I've been shaved, and undressing as a "normal" for so long that i don't give this a second thought.
Having a family full of medical professionals, you gotta be really off the wall for them to say anything to their spouses. Hairless or panties is kinda normal to them.
Candi
Perfection Is a Road Not a Destination
Ah feel yer pain. I feel the same way. But a month really isn't long enough. Most doctors and nurses won't say anything. But that's not the issue. I just don't want anyone to know. About ten years ago, I had a doctor appointment, and the doctor was examining me, and he said, "You've lost some body hair........errr....oh". Then he caught himself and didn't say anything. I also had skipped shaving for a month, but I still had a crew cut down there.Can anyone relate, or an I am old freak?
No need to worry. I am a physician and it would neither engender discussion among the staff nor impact your care in any way. Just be Lena!
I used to be a rabid...damn autocomplete.... AVID body builder and shaving is completely normal in those circles! That said, now I'm more of a boobie builder I am a little concious of it but if anyone asks 'hey, I'm getting back into it OK 😠 '
Have you actually had that conversation? "How many of your male patients are wearing panties when they drop 'em?"
"Normal is what you get when you average out the weirdness that everybody has." Quote from my SO
Normal is a setting on a washing machine, or another word for average.
The fact that I wear a skirt as a male should not be taken as a comment on what you do, or do not wear, or how you wear it.
my doctor when he walked in complimented me on my toe nail polish, i've changed i said, i noticed he said
now...anything else.... i told him
he thought talking to someone would be good idea....
i did, it was
i asked if he had others like me...he said yes, i was happy
no comment on clean new pink panties when he saw them later on during the visit.
stopped in the other day for something and the nurse complimented on my hair and i showed an pic of a possible new style in a magazine i was looking at...she thought it would look good on me.
they have seen it all
I'm not saying you are rude but you are naïve. We have a friend who is an ER nurse in a major downtown hospital. She talks all the time about her patients; the crossdressers, the transsexuals, the gangbangers, etc. No names of course, but she talks. It's what women do.
Lena, no need to go to that much effort. As others have said, the medical profession has seen it all before and they are, as implied, "professional". As professionals they do their job on whoever/whatever appears in front of them. I have long since ceased to worry about the quantity of body hair whether that is legs, bum, back, front, private parts - that is totally irrelevant to the job they're doing. Clothing is/was a bit more tricky to handle, more specifically underwear. I have not yet turned up for a medical appointment as Michelle but, given that I have been underdressing to a greater or lesser extent for about 20 years, it is a certainty that I will be wearing some sort of satin undies and possibly some hosiery as well. I usually think about it in advance and wear my least obviously feminine panties and a pair of hold-ups (thigh highs); that way the panties aren't particularly obviously ladieswear and the hold-ups can relatively easily be slipped off.
But I have been caught out at twice recently...I went to the GP to seek advice on a painful shoulder which, of course, he wants to examine. I had completely forgotten that I was wearing one of my satin slips with little spaghetti straps which was obviously ladieswear and visible as soon as I slipped off my shirt.
The more embarrassing instance occurred at one of my 6 monthly prostate reviews. We talked through how things were, result of the last PSA test and then before we finished he said "we'd better just have a quick anal examination of the prostate". Ah, I thought, this is going to be embarrassing - I am wearing a garter belt and stockings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No choice here, caught with my pants down, so to speak!!!!! I made some comment that he might be a little surprised when I took my trousers and panties down. He was, a little, but he did what he had to do and then when we'd finished and I was dressed again he casually asked about what I was wearing and I explained that I was a regular crossdresser. It wasn't a problem, he was mildly interested and I was trying hard not to laugh at myself. Once I was on my way home I couldn't contain my amusement - I had to ring a friend to share it - she was in stitches, she couldn't control her laughing. My wife just thought I was stupid for turning up like that!!!
Just forget it, Lena - be who you are, they really really don't care and you might get into an interesting conversation...as I did when they put me onto Finasteride to help reduce the size of my prostate. The specialist nurse was explaining what it was for and what the side-effects might be. She got as far as possible growth of man boobs - "ah, that won't a problem," I said. She looked a little quizzical so I elaborated, showed her some pics on my phone and we had a really good chat about it, extending the appointment for at least 1/4 hour (sorry to whoever was next after me!!!) and she promised to look out for Michelle around Exeter and say hello if she saw me.
I don't think it will be long before Michelle gets to meet either our local doctor or the urologist.
Be happy, be brave - it's fine, honestly.
Michelle
xxxxx
Have to agree with every one here. The Doctor has far more to worry about than whether I have shaved my legs. Besides it's in there some were on my medical records that I'm a CD, as my wife and I took a course of counselling on the NHS many years ago.
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